I think “afresh” is proper here. “Afresh” is an adverb to describe the verb “start”, while “fresh” is an adjective. It could be reworded to say, “… chance to have a fresh start.” Then start has changed to a noun and the adjective,”fresh”, would describe it.

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News headlines always have that clipped style. Notice they omitted the ‘a’ from ‘a chance,’ which they will not do in the main story.

Being ticklish about clarity, I realize, belatedly, how I had used the word ‘nevertheless’ so poorly.

‘Nevertheless’ is used, when properly, to reassert a point by acknowledging the existence of counterpoints that are implied elsewhere: Her presentation was dismally poor; nevertheless her ideas deserve serious considerations.

In that sense the ‘nevertheless’ in my previous post was quite wrong, or at best a foggy version of, say, ‘In any case’ or ‘Regardless.’

This ticklishness about words might be dismissively characterized as ‘tight-donkey‘ via translation from ancient scripture. But of what use are words if you are careless of their proper meanings let alone nuances?